Seriously, if he had enough money he would have just anesthetized the kid with whatever ADD drugs the moneyed set has and he wouldn't have to worry about him. Redneck solutions are so much tackier than the equivalent civilized solutions.

cgraves67:You know he cares because he chains him to a tree instead of letting him run off unsupervised.

/horrible people

For all you know his last kid ran off unsupervised and drowned. He's being extra careful with this one.Don't judge a parent for being too protective. You don't know what it's like out there these days.

SquiggsIN:roc6783: Also, how the Fark are those leash backpacks legal? That just screams "I am gonna be farked up to my kid".

Think of a mom with 3 kids standing on a subway platform. Those could be the difference between life and death for whichever one she can't get a hand on.

They aren't they are used against some parents as a sign of neglect on the parents part when it comes to child abuse cases as a sign that the parents don't have control over their child's behaviour. Then after the Ricky Holland case a the company that manufactured them stopped. It's best to teach your kids to behave and have control of your children at all times.

roc6783:@Squiggs (sorry can't quote on phone) - and? Natural selection ain't got time for that. On a less serious note, if the answer is leashing your kid, you're doing it wrong.

Something tells me that getting chained to trees is not only the least of the kids worries, but by all accounts (and we only have his uncle's, I know), this is damned fine parenting (perspectively), as the kid seems to have plenty going on round about him to be protected from getting himself into.

No I am saying pay enough attention to your kids that you don't need to leash them like a farking dog. If you're on a subway platform and they are old enough to run onto the tracks, make them all hold hands with you holding the youngest. Siblings love tattling on each other, use that.

Also, your level of attention should be proportional to the danger of the surroundings - subway platform, eagle eye, fenced in playground with only your kids there, do a head count every now and then and respond to crying that lasts more than 2 minutes.